Geography 450

Location-Theoretical Traditions and Significant Concepts

(http://faculty.washington.edu/krumme/450/traditions.html)

Under Construction

This scheme was first conceived by the author in the late 1960s for use in
his classes. It was revised and reprinted by M. Eliot-Hurst in his book
A Geography
of Economic Behavior (Duxbury 1972), pp.387-93. It is now in the
process of being reworked in its entirety.

Implications of Internet and Other High-Tech Developments for
Regions

Changing role of services Changes in employment patterns and
the nature of jobs and work

Resources:

This body of classical location theory, largely based on what we
would call today micro-economic equilibrium reasoning has been much
maligned but
still represents the bedrock of location and spatial organization theory
against which all more recent suggestions are measured. The four major
traditions have been summarized here

Concentric ZonesSector TheoryMultiple Nuclei Theory

Urban Density FunctionsColin Clark was the first to discover that population
densities tend to decline exponentially with distance from the city
center. Newling suggested the existence of the "doughnut hole", namely a
quadratic exponential function creating a density crater at the center
where non-residential activities prevail. Cadwallader (1996, p.114)
suggests that Newling's findings represent a late stage of dynamic
density shifts.